Cultivation: I Can Solidify Equipment Attributes

Chapter 321: Chapter 310: Fire Yang Enhancement

The next morning, the administration office sent over a document from the Sect.

The contents were simple. Some of the Array Materials in the Core Formation District needed to be replaced. The Primordial Yang Sect was requiring all Array Masters with access privileges to go and participate in the maintenance.

Li Yuan accepted the document and went to the Core Formation District that afternoon.

The identification Array in the outer ring’s corridor had an additional layer of inspection, making entry and exit stricter than last time. After presenting his identity token, Li Yuan passed through two checkpoints and walked along the corridor toward the inner ring.

The inner ring’s layout hadn’t changed much since the last time work was completed, but the concentration of Spiritual Power in the air was noticeably thinner.

Li Yuan passed through the inner ring’s transitional area, his gaze falling on the distant Core Formation Platform.

The platform stood silently in the center of the core area. The Array Patterns on its surface weren’t active; it was in a standby state.

One glance was all it took for Li Yuan to notice something was off.

The luster on the platform’s surface was a hint dimmer than when they had finished last time.

When the full set of auxiliary Arrays was completed last time, the surface of the Core Formation Platform had held an extremely faint Spiritual Light, contained within the stone. It was the outward manifestation of the Spiritual Power held by the platform’s main Array. That Spiritual Light was still there, but its brightness had noticeably dimmed, like an oil lamp that had burned through some of its fuel.

Li Yuan didn’t ask questions right away, instead heading to the construction area first.

A few Array Masters had already begun dismantling damaged auxiliary array materials in the outer ring.

After joining them, Li Yuan was assigned to the two interconnected Arrays in the transitional section between the inner ring and the core area. The Array Patterns of these two Arrays had sustained the most severe damage; the Spiritual Power circuits at several key nodes had been broken, requiring them to be dismantled and rebuilt entirely.

While dismantling the Array, a slightly older Array Master next to him suddenly spoke up.

"Do you guys feel like the platform is dimmer than last time?"

Li Yuan’s hands didn’t stop moving, but he listened with pricked ears.

Another Array Master looked up toward the Core Formation Platform and nodded.

"It is a bit dimmer. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but you noticed it too."

"It’s not your eyes." The older Array Master lowered his voice. "I made a special note of the Spiritual Light’s intensity on the platform’s surface last time I was here. It’s weaker by at least ten percent."

The few of them discussed it in low voices for a bit, but reached no conclusion and went back to work.

The work of dismantling and rebuilding continued for the entire day.

As they were wrapping up work in the evening, the late-stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator stationed there came over to explain some follow-up arrangements to the Array Masters. Once he finished, Li Yuan seized the opportunity to ask a question.

"The platform’s Spiritual Light is much weaker than last time. Is this normal consumption, or is there a problem?"

The stationed Cultivator glanced at him and hesitated for a moment.

"Normal consumption," he said. "When the Core Formation Platform assists in Core Formation, it consumes its own contained Spiritual Power and a portion of its Spiritual Essence. After it’s used, it needs to be replenished with Spiritual Qi to recover."

He paused for a moment before adding,

"The platform itself has a lifespan. It’s consumed with each use; it’s not something that can be used indefinitely."

Li Yuan nodded and didn’t press the issue.

’The Core Formation Platform has a limited number of uses.’

’It’s not a perpetual motion machine. Every time it assists with Core Formation, it consumes a part of the platform’s body. The dimming Spiritual Light is the visible evidence of that consumption.’

"Was this Core Formation Platform originally part of the ruins?" another Array Master spoke up, asking a question.

"The Qi Shui Sect’s Core Formation Platform seems to have been moved from somewhere else."

The stationed Cultivator thought for a moment, then nodded.

’It can be moved.’

Li Yuan filed this piece of information away and said no more.

Construction continued the next day.

The two interconnected Arrays Li Yuan was responsible for rebuilding were entering their final stages. The Array Hub materials needed to be replaced, and Li Yuan sorted through the box of materials provided by the Sect, selecting a suitable stone.

As his fingers rummaged through the box of materials, he felt a Fire Sun Stone.

The quality was good. The stone’s surface glowed with a warm, dark red luster, and the Spiritual Power flowed rhythmically within. Li Yuan picked it up, preparing to set it into the Array Hub.

The instant his finger touched the stone’s surface, the panel popped up.

[Equippable Item Detected]

[Trait Preview: Fire Sun Enhancement (Green)]

[Effect: Enhances the wearer’s Fire Element Magic potency. The enhancement increases with the number of Fire Element Magic techniques cultivated, with a minimum of 10% and a maximum of 50%.]

[Note: A trait of the same origin has already been made permanent. Cannot be equipped again.]

Li Yuan’s hand paused.

’Cannot be equipped again. The reason is that I’ve already made a same-origin trait permanent.’

He looked at the effect description displayed on the panel. ’Enhancing Fire Element Magic potency... it clearly overlaps with the effect of my permanent Flame Marrow Body trait.’

The panel considered the trait from this Fire Sun Stone to be of the same origin as Flame Marrow Body.

The source of the Flame Marrow Body trait was a Spirit-Nurturing Jade Sun Stone. That stone had been extracted from a mineral vein and possessed two effects: enhancing Fire Element Magic potency and strengthening the physical body through the consumption of Demon Beast Flesh.

Now, when this ordinary Fire Sun Stone was embedded into an Array Hub, it produced a trait that only contained the Fire Element enhancement effect, lacking the component that converted Demon Beast Flesh into Qi Blood.

’The Demonic Power conversion corresponds to the attributes of the Array Hub.’

’The Fire Element enhancement corresponds to the attributes of the ore itself.’

’The effects of two traits from different sources... because the Spirit-Nurturing Jade Sun Stone held the dual identity of both an Array Hub and a raw ore, they were passively fused, creating the complete Flame Marrow Body effect.’

’This ordinary Fire Sun Stone is just a material for an Array Hub; it doesn’t possess the attributes of a natural ore nourished by a Spirit Vein. That’s why it only produced one half of the effect—the Fire Element enhancement.’

’The panel deems them to be of the same origin and won’t allow me to equip both.’

Li Yuan set the Fire Sun Stone aside and picked up another stone of comparable quality to embed in the Array Hub.

This discovery didn’t impact his current task, but it gave Li Yuan a deeper understanding of the mechanism behind trait generation. ’Array traits and material traits can be fused, and the resulting effect depends on the source of each attribute.’

The reconstruction work was fully completed on the afternoon of the third day.

After the newly laid Arrays were activated, Li Yuan stood in the inner ring and extended his perception toward the Core Formation Platform.

’My perception is blocked.’

The newly added Arrays had formed an extra layer of concealment. Any Divine Sense probing from the outer ring was now obstructed by the Arrays’ Spiritual Power Field at the edge of the core area, unable to penetrate through to the Core Formation Platform.

This layer of concealment hadn’t existed when the auxiliary Arrays were first finished; it had been added during this maintenance and reconstruction. The Divine Sense and perceptive abilities of any outside Cultivators were now completely blocked from the core area, preventing them from seeing the Core Formation Platform’s condition.

Li Yuan tried switching to the Spirit Vein Monitoring Line.

The Spirit Vein’s perceptual channel didn’t operate on the Spiritual Power layer of the Array. Instead, it permeated the structure of the Spirit Vein’s body itself. The Array’s concealment targeted foreign Divine Sense and Spiritual Power probes, but it had no effect on the flow of Spiritual Qi within the Spirit Vein.

His Spirit Vein perception passed through the concealing layer.

The state of Spiritual Qi flow toward the Core Formation Platform remained clear in his perception. The Flow Diversion Array ran continuously, drawing Spiritual Qi from the main vein toward the platform. Even the dimming Spiritual Light on its surface could be sensed through the Spirit Vein.

’The view from the outside is blocked, but I can still perceive everything happening at the Core Formation Platform through the Spirit Vein.’

After leaving the Core Formation District, Li Yuan returned to his stone house and sat cross-legged on his rush mat.

Three Divine Sense Lines activated simultaneously, the main one circulating the Concentrating Soul-Invoking Skill.

He had been continuously cultivating the Concentrating Soul-Invoking Skill ever since reaching the introductory stage, and his progress was steady. After the "Guarded Soul Condensation" trait took effect, the Divine Soul consumed during each cultivation session decreased by twenty percent. This allowed him to complete more circulation cycles in the same amount of time, and his proficiency increased faster than he had anticipated.

Tonight, as he reached the latter half of his cultivation session, the panel popped up.

[Concentrating Soul-Invoking Skill: Proficient (0/400)]

From introductory to proficient.

The change was on the level of his Divine Soul.

At the introductory level, the improvement in his Divine Soul’s condensation was just a vague sense of direction. It was like knowing where to go, but the path under his feet was still unclear. After reaching the proficient level, that path became solid. The condensation of his Divine Soul was no longer a passive, slow progression that followed the Cultivation Technique’s circulation. Instead, with each circulation, he could clearly feel his Divine Soul becoming a little tighter, a little denser.

Li Yuan took a moment to feel the current state of his Divine Soul.

’It’s much stronger than when I was at the introductory level.’

The clarity and penetration of his Divine Sense had risen to a new level, and the passive perceptive precision of his Clear Spiritual Sense had improved a bit as well.

’My Divine Soul is stronger now. Maybe I can split off another line?’

While maintaining the three Divine Sense Lines, Li Yuan tried to split off a branch from the main line.

A fourth Divine Sense Line.

The instant the split occurred, he felt a brief spell of dizziness, as if his Divine Soul had been abruptly tugged. However, the permanent "Multi-Purpose Divine Split" trait immediately stabilized the primary and secondary relationships between the four lines, and the dizzy sensation vanished within a breath’s time.

The four lines operated independently.

The main line ran the Concentrating Soul-Invoking Skill. The second line was dedicated to Spirit Vein monitoring. The third covered routine perception around his stone house. The fourth line was empty, awaiting a task.

’There’s no pressure maintaining four lines for daily tasks.’

’One more line means I can do four things at once from now on.’

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